Musk actively participates in making X/Twitter a leading negative center of hate... yet he wants people to post 'positive' content. Well Elon, I am positive you are an idiot. Will you ban me if I post this? Elon Musk Hit With Brutal Reminder After Asking X Users To Post More 'Positive' Content https://www.comicsands.com/elon-musk-positive-content
You are a great example of almost 100% negativity of the content on this forum. You and a few others destroyed the narrative; it is boringly one-sided and negative. X is the place to be now. Yes, there is negativity there but I see many more positive posts. See you next time in a month, may be.
Just X/Twitter's CEO, Linda Yaccarino, lying again. In related news, she looks like she has aged ten years in under twelve months. X CEO signals ad boycott is over. External data paints a different picture. Data shows election didn’t spike X users or end ad boycott. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...ver-external-data-paints-a-different-picture/ Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X Corp., formerly Twitter, speaks during a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 7, 2025 When X CEO Linda Yaccarino took the stage as a keynote speaker at CES 2025, she revealed that "90 percent of the advertisers" who boycotted X over brand safety concerns since Elon Musk's 2022 Twitter acquisition "are back on X." Yaccarino did not go into any further detail to back up the data point, and X did not immediately respond to Ars' request to comment. But Yaccarino's statistic seemed to bolster claims that X had made since Donald Trump's re-election that advertisers were flocking back to the platform, with some outlets reporting that brands hoped to win Musk's favor in light of his perceived influence over Trump by increasing spending on X. However, it remains hard to gauge how impactful this seemingly significant number of advertisers returning will be in terms of spiking X's value, which fell by as much as 72 percent after Musk's Twitter takeover. And X's internal data doesn't seem to completely sync up with data from marketing intelligence firm Sensor Tower, suggesting that more context may be needed to understand if X's financial woes may potentially be easing up in 2025. Before the presidential election, Sensor Tower previously told Ars that "72 out of the top 100 spending US advertisers" on Twitter/X from October 2022 had "ceased spending on the platform as of September 2024." This was up from 50 advertisers who had stopped spending on Twitter/X in October 2023, about a year after Musk's acquisition, suggesting that the boycott had seemingly only gotten worse. Shortly after the election, AdWeek reported that big brands, including Comcast, IBM, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lionsgate Entertainment, had resumed advertising on X. But by the end of 2024, Sensor Tower told Ars that X still had seemingly not succeeded in wooing back many of pre-acquisition Twitter's top spenders, making Yaccarino's claim that "90 percent of advertisers are back on X" somewhat harder to understand. According to Sensor Tower, "69 out of the top 100 spending US advertisers" on Twitter/X in October 2022 had "ceased spending on the platform" as of December 2024. This could reflect a modest influx of advertisers who previously stopped spending, as the total is slightly lower than the September 2024 data showing 72 had ceased spending. But Sensor Tower suggested that its data instead indicates that perhaps rather than wooing back advertisers, X "has cultivated a base of new advertisers." The firm found that "52 of the current top 100 spending US advertisers" on X in December 2024 were not advertising on pre-acquisition Twitter. For example, Temu—which launched just before Musk's acquisition in September 2022—was X's top advertiser in 2024, Sensor Tower found, "accounting for 3 percent of total US ad spend on the network." Yaccarino promised “a lot higher”engagement in 2025 At CES, Yaccarino said that X's product innovation was helping to drive advertisers' interest in the platform, citing X's NFL portal's success as an example of why "the best brands" are wanting to partner with a company that's "transforming" like X. She also touted a new tool supposedly coming in "max" four or five months called TrendGenius, calling it the "holy grail" of marketing tools because it syncs ad campaigns to trending topics in real time. Such innovations—along with new advertiser controls to help prevent offensive or unfortunate ad placements—could attract more brands in 2025, when Yaccarino predicted that X's engagement numbers would be "a lot higher than they were in 2024." To achieve that engagement goal, though, Sensor Tower data suggests that X will have to reverse a downward trend that saw X's global daily average users down by 13 percent in the final quarter of 2024 compared to the prior year. "Sensor Tower data shows that X’s user base has shrunk materially over the past two years since it was acquired by Elon Musk," the marketing intelligence firm reported. And "despite the US presidential election stirring consumer interest on X, this timely event wasn’t enough to stop the continued loss of active users on the platform," declining by 6 percent from the quarter prior to the election to the quarter after. Although Yaccarino repeatedly said there is "no surrogate" for X at CES, during the same pre- and post-election period, rivals like Bluesky and Threads saw users spike by 185 percent and 22 percent, respectively. "Threads and Bluesky likely experienced material user growth in the US due to certain existing X users growing frustrated with the platform during the throes of the US presidential election," Sensor Tower reported. A TikTok ban could be a boon for X, Sensor Tower suggested, if its user base flocks to X as an alternative platform. That could potentially expand X's younger user base, especially since Yaccarino noted at CES that a recent Ad Age poll showed that Gen Z is already "really fueling the growth" on X. The Supreme Court will weigh the TikTok ban case starting tomorrow, but free speech advocates expect TikTok will make a strong First Amendment case to block a potential ban. Without a ban, X will likely rely on continued innovation to attract more users. At CES, Yaccarino said that X's AI assistant Grok and its payments product X Money would be the big rollouts in 2025. Musk and Yaccarino had previously promised to deliver X Money by the end of 2024, but that deadline came and went without a peep about the delay. Additionally, X has been quiet about the fact that it withdrew its money transmitter app in New York last year. While it's possible X Money could be rolled out state by state, Musk has said that it would be "irrelevant" to launch X Payments without a New York license.
Experts warn that X/Twitter's new AI is driving online racist abuse, fail to recognize that it's a feature, not a bug. ‘Just the start’: X’s new AI software driving online racist abuse, experts warn Amid reports of creation of fake racist images, Signify warns problem will get ‘so much worse’ over the next year https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ware-driving-online-racist-abuse-experts-warn
The EU wants to know why X/Twitter is #1 with racists. EU Wants to Peek Into the X Algorithm to See Why It Keeps Promoting the Far-Right Time to crack open the ol' racism machine and see how it works. https://gizmodo.com/eu-wants-to-pea...y-it-keeps-promoting-the-far-right-2000551863
It will be interesting to see if this debt will sell for 90 to 95 cents on the dollar. Most financial specialists had outlined the debt is worth 70 cents on the dollar at most -- as seen by how Fidelity has discounted its Twitter holdings in regular reports. Maybe they will find some Elon fans to buy this $3 Billion of Twitter debt. Banks Prepare to Offload as Much as $3 Billion of X Buyout Debt https://finance.yahoo.com/news/banks-prepare-offload-much-3-210232618.html
Musk is running a hustle and trying to put lipstick on the pig known as X. Behind Musk’s X turnaround: Pick-and-choose financials https://finance.yahoo.com/news/behind-musk-x-turnaround-pick-161958574.html (Bloomberg) — Even as Elon Musk’s X Holdings Corp. basks in a valuation facelift, the social-media platform remains mired in debt and its improved fortunes owe much to heavily adjusted financials and investors’ fear of missing out. The company is talking to investors about a fresh equity fundraising that would catapult it back to the $44 billion valuation it had in 2022 when Musk purchased the platform then called Twitter, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Enthusiasm around X, which allowed its lenders to easily find buyers for more than $11 billion of its debt in a matter of weeks recently, marks a sharp turnaround from how Wall Street viewed the company not long ago. But the optimism is being buttressed by financials that fall outside the norm of corporate accounting standards most large companies use, according to people familiar with figures the company has shared with investors recently. The figures included income from “related parties” outside of X’s core social media platform and removed restructuring expenses related to large-scale job cuts, as well as investments in projects like Musk’s artificial-intelligence gambit, xAI Corp., Bloomberg previously reported. Those calculations showed X posting about $2.6 billion of total net revenue last year, well below the $5.1 billion that Twitter delivered for 2021, without adjustments, and before Musk took over the platform. The almost $1.4 billion adjusted profit figure it shared is a vast improvement from the losses Twitter posted in pre-Musk days. The adjusted profit came from a measure known in industry parlance as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. The 2024 figures weren’t audited, but the 2023 figures were, said one of the people. None of them would qualify for generally accepted accounting principles, also known as the GAAP standard that the US Securities and Exchange Commission requires for publicly traded companies. Representatives for X didn’t respond to a request for comment. Even under those unusual calculations, X’s debt burden was roughly nine times adjusted earnings — far beyond the baseline of six that bank regulators characterize as risky. X’s traditional advertising and subscription revenue wasn’t broken out, but banks marketing the debt touted a return of prominent advertisers including Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Kraft Heinz Co. and car brands owned by Stellantis NV, according to people familiar with the matter. All of those factors combined led to the sharp turnaround in perceptions about X, whose equity only a few months ago was viewed as 72% less valuable and whose debt banks could not sell. Musk’s close ties to US President Donald Trump have been the game-changer, helping to boost optimism around the billionaire’s business empire, including X. Some of the investors who purchased X debt explained their rationale this way: Advertisers appear to be returning, its financials seem to be stabilizing with subscription revenue on the rise, the company has a stake in xAI that could turn out to be valuable and, even ignoring all of those things, there is a strong intangible element of the value of Musk that can’t be ignored. The Musk FOMO — fear of missing out — outweighed any concerns that are typically front of mind for credit investors, they said. Some advertisers appear to have had a similar turnaround in their view of Musk and X. The billionaire’s earlier pledges to encourage more “free speech” spooked off dozens of major advertisers who worried about their brands appearing alongside controversial posts on the platform. Musk’s own posts and behavior — including telling advertisers to “go F——” themselves — helped keep many away. But now, those same advertisers are feeling a different kind of pressure to return to X. Musk and his social network have sued several household brands for pulling ad dollars, arguing that their decisions to stop running ads amounted to anticompetitive behavior. The threat of litigation — and Musk’s advisory role to Trump — has been a topic of conversation among some advertisers as they decide whether to return, according to several ad industry sources. While few believe X’s product or ad offerings have improved in the past year, marketers are weighing the possible downside of ignoring X and what that might mean in terms of retaliation from Musk. For instance, Stellantis-owned Jeep, which had announced its departure from X in 2022, has been back on the platform, now with a yellow check-mark designating it as an official business account. It posted its Super Bowl ad featuring Harrison Ford on Feb. 9, one of the most popular times for companies to advertise on X. Representatives for Amazon and Stellantis declined to comment, while Kraft Heinz didn’t provide one. A representative for Apple didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Another day, another outage. Is there a single day where X/Twitter stays up and operating worldwide? Perhaps we should just auto-post this headline everyday. Twitter is DOWN: Social media app crashes for thousands of users around the world https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...-media-app-crashes-thousands-users-world.html
Oh look, Musk is blaming a large-scale cyber attack. Network security forums indicate there is no cyber attack currently underway targeted X/Twitter. Dimwit Elon is just trying to find some outside excuse for the failure -- self-inflicted by his understaffed company now ran by suck-up incompetents rather than knowledgeable technologists. Elon Musk says X facing 'massive cyberattack' Musk says X cyberattack was done 'with a lot of resources,' suggests 'large coordinated group and/or a country is involved' https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-says-x-facing-massive-cyberattack
A leprechaun broke into the servers and disrupted the X service. That is just as valid as the bullshit you made up.